Lodro Rinzler ~ A Society Based On A Open Heart ~ 11 February 2012

The following is excerpted from The Buddha Walks Into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation - available from Shambhala Publications. 

“Imagine what it would be like if one day everyone woke up and decided to shift the focus of their day away from always holding themselves at the center of the universe? The more we become familiar with our own emotional ups and downs, the more we begin to see them in others.

Developing compassion for another person in this way is not a patronizing activity. It is not “I am so enlightened, and you suffer so much, so I will have pity for you.” It’s the realization that we’re not better than anyone else. Actually we’re all the same, because we all want the same thing: joy.”

You can help the world. You, you, you, you, and you — all of you — can help the world. You know what the problems are.

Gloria Wendroff ~ The Heaven Letters  February ~ 11 2012

Where Else Can Love Exist

When an archer shoots an arrow, he has a target in mind. He doesn’t always reach his target, yet he always has a target.

This is what I ask you to do, to have a target in mind in terms of your life. What do you want to reach? Where are you going?

At the head of your list is to love, that whatever you do, wherever you go, that you go with love, and, that whatever you give, you give with love. Desire no less from yourself. Have that intention. You don’t have to put signs up such as: “Remember to love today.” Of course, you may, yet the important thing is to set the intention to be a lover of life and mankind. If you miss, you do not penalize yourself. Remember, some targets you will miss here and there, and yet, with experience, you become a greater archer. The desire and the intention are key. Perfection in the world is not.

What is Your Purpose?

~Galactic Love Reporter Lisa Gawlas~

I get asked “What is my purpose” more than any other question.  Even if you had a singlular purpose, spirit would never tell me.  But, in hearing my first reading of yesterdays passionate desperation in wanting to know, the answer that flowed forth humbled me.

There is no singular defined purpose at all.  What ever you are doing today, that is your purpose.  Whatever you are doing tomorrow, that is your purpose. Every day adds something new to you, sometimes it is so subtle you do not even realize it, but it changes you.  When you change, your purposeful day changes.  When you share those changes that you do understand with others, in the field of hope, you are adding to the field of light like no other can.  A hug of comfort, a redirection of mind/words, a gentle understanding in all that changing offered outwards.

SUNSPOT OF INTEREST: For the second day in a row, sunspot AR1416 has doubled in size: movie. Moreover, it has developed a "beta-gamma" magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. Any such eruptions this weekend would be Earth directed as the sunspot turns to face our planet. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.

THE VIEW FROM ABOVE: On Friday, Feb. 10th, NASA released a new set of videos from the International Space Station that officials said was among "the most spectacular night imagery ever taken from space of the United States." After watching the following movie (48 MB), you might find it hard to disagree:

http://spaceweather.com/